Senior WordPress Engineer

Senior WordPress Engineer

Remote first team

We're looking for an experienced Full Stack WordPress Engineer to join a high-performing, distributed development team delivering new features, functionality and ongoing improvements across enterprise-level WordPress platforms.

You'll primarily focus on a large-scale, high-traffic digital news platform, while also contributing to shared services and tools that support multiple well-known media brands.

The Role

You'll be part of an established and collaborative technology team where innovation is encouraged and good ideas move quickly. The environment is dynamic and adaptable, giving you the freedom to build purposeful, high-impact software without unnecessary bureaucracy.

You will:

• Develop and maintain features for an enterprise-scale WordPress platform

• Build and maintain shared plugins used across multiple WordPress properties

• Develop microservices and JavaScript applications that integrate alongside WordPress

• Optimise performance, improving response times, database queries and Core Web Vitals

• Contribute to architectural and technology decisions with a focus on scalability and maintainability

• Independently manage workload in a fast-paced environment

• Debug and resolve issues raised by editorial and support teams

What We're Looking For Essential Experience

• 8+ years' experience in WordPress development

• Strong expertise in the WordPress and Gutenberg ecosystem

• Experience building custom Gutenberg blocks, RSS feeds and WP-JSON API endpoints

• Advanced HTML, CSS and PHP skills with a focus on performance

• Strong Front End JavaScript experience, including React

• Solid understanding of Git and version control best practices

• Experience working within Agile environments (eg, JIRA)

• Ability to deliver full-stack projects independently from concept to deployment

• Strong understanding of Core Web Vitals and website performance optimisation

• Confident communicator within distributed teams

• Strong debugging skills, including Chrome DevTools

• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Desirable Experience

• WordPress VIP platform experience

• Building WordPress at enterprise scale (caching, query optimisation, WP Cron)

• Monitoring tools such as New Relic or Kibana

• TypeScript and Webpack

• WP-CLI and custom command creation

• AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway)

• Publishing to Apple News

• CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions or TeamCity

• Writing ad-hoc Bash or Python scripts

• Subscription platform integrations (eg, Piano, Zephr)

• Willingness to travel to London occasionally for team meet-ups

Why Apply?

• Work on high-traffic, enterprise-level platforms

• Join a collaborative and forward-thinking technology team

• Influence architecture and performance at scale

• Enjoy flexibility within a hybrid working model

If you're an experienced WordPress developer who enjoys building scalable, high-performance digital products, we'd love to hear from you.